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Shloka 247

कामद्रुम-रूपकः तथा शरीर-पुर-रूपकः

The Desire-Tree and the Body-as-City Metaphors

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि शुकानुप्रश्ने सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukānupraśne saptacatvāriṁśad-adhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവത്തിലെ മോക്ഷധർമ്മപർവത്തിൽ ശുകന്റെ അനുപ്രശ്ന-പ്രസംഗമായ ഇരുനൂറ്റിനാൽപ്പത്തേഴാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തം.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

शुकानुप्रश्नेin (the topic of) Shuka's follow-up question(s)

सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमःthe 247th

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva (section)

Śuka

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is not a doctrinal verse but a colophon: it formally signals the completion of a chapter within the Mokṣa-dharma portion of the Śānti Parva, framing the surrounding material as liberation-oriented instruction presented in the setting of Śuka’s questioning.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: the narrator/editorial voice marks that the discourse connected with Śuka’s inquiry has reached the end of the 247th chapter in the Mokṣa-dharma section of the Śānti Parva.